​With Thirty Days of Yes dropping a new track every day for the next month your listening needs should be more than sated. But for those still in the market for a little more The Breeders have returned from an eight-year recording hiatus with ‘Get in the Car’. They're a hard act to top but Bec Sandridge and Tennis have shared two excellent singles ahead of their forthcoming records. As an added bonus Demon Days, Moonlover, Crocodylus, and These New South Whales have also dropped some fantastic tracks.

TWERPS - IT’S TIME (THIRTY DAYS OF YES)

Over the next month a whole host of Aussie artists and a few international friends will be dropping unheard tracks in support of marriage equality. First of the rank are Melbourne’s Twerps. ‘It’s Time’ is jangly call to action which doesn’t pull any punches. Its lyrics were first penned in 2013 yet they couldn't ring an truer were they written today.

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​​THE BREEDERS – WAIT IN THE CAR (4AD/REMOTE CONTROL)
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Kim Deal’s output may be sporadic, but whenever she turns out something new it’s a masterstroke of modern music. ‘Wait in the Car’ reconvenes the group’s Last Splash line-up and bridges an 8-year gap since Fate to Fatal. While Kim and sister Kelly can come on sugary sweet, their harmonies here simmer with churning agitation. Bathed in hard riffing distortion, there’s a corroded beauty which courses throughout. It feels as if The Breeders are gearing up to inject some much-needed irony back into popular music.
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​BEC SANDRIDGE – I’LL NEVER WANT A BF (LITTLE GIANT)

With the leading single from her forthcoming debut, Sandridge comes on fiery, topical and disarmingly honest. Determined to bring a bit of flair and melodrama back into Australian music, her strengths lie in an intuitive knack for exaggeration and colourful delivery. ‘I’ll Never Want A BF’ cements a musical persona which throws back to the fantasia of acts Ziggy Stardust, Kate Bush and Prince. She's an earnest magazine hero for the modern age.
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​​TENNIS – I MISS THAT FEELING (MUTUALLY DETRIMENTAL)

With ‘I Miss that Feeling’ Denver’s husband and wife duo Tennis deliver slathers of cosy nostalgia. There’s some heavy Carpenters-Carole King vibrations, but the track also sits alongside the work of contemporary revivalists Tobias Jesso Jr., Natalie Prass and perhaps even old John Misty himself. It leaks with a drifting melancholy complimented by baroque embellishments and energetic vocal runs.
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DEMON DAYS – KILLER BEES (MELLUM)

A Perth collective touched by a mutual love of jazz, funk and soul, Demon Days’ ‘Killer Bees’ unfurls as a smouldering tale of dejection. With its vocals a cache of aching directness the Demons draw the listener along a languid journey. The track's seductively rolling bass line and sparkling keys would play well alongside BadBadNotGood or King Gizzard and Mild High Club’s Sketches of Brunswick East.
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​CROCODYLUS – SWEATY ALREADY (INDEPENDENT)

There a few acts so possessed by the crude vigour of ‘60s garage and R&B as Sydney’s Crocodylus. ‘Sweaty Already’ is purposed to convey the stifling excitement of a crowded venue and there’s little question it succeeds. From within the track’s sonic squalor comes buzzing riffs and danceably primal rhythms.
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​THESE NEW SOUTH WHALES – CHOLESTEROL HEART (GOD BLESS YA) (INDEPENDENT)
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TNSW will soon to be hitting Queensland for their ‘You Work For Us’ tour. In lieu of the fact they’ve decided to fan a bit of excitement with a new clip for ‘Cholesterol Heart’. The hard-driving number sits close to the heart of their latest LP, there’s plenty of jittery rhythm and a relentless torrent of guitar heroics.

Laden with all manner of exotic crucial ideas, Moonlover’s “Thou Shall Be Free” casts a dense sonic fantasia. Allegedly the inspiration for the track, also the title of a forthcoming LP, came when the late David Bowie serenaded project mastermind Quang Dinh in a dream. If Dinh’s story to be believed this shimmering psychedelia testifies to the fact that the experience left him inspired.